Angela Fung
Deputy Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel
Phoenix Satellite TV Co Ltd
Angela Fung has extensive experience in TV programming, especially programme acquisition. She started her career as Assistant Producer at Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Co. Ltd.
From 1991, she was Programme Officer of the English Channel at Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), where she started her career in TV programming. From 1994 to 1995, she was in the classified ad industry. Then she joined NBC Asia, the then Asian headquarter of the US network NBC, where she was Assistant Manager for three years, responsible for programme scheduling, acquisition and translation.
In 1998, she joined Phoenix Satellite TV Co. Ltd., the top renowned Mandarin TV service for China and the Asian region. She started as Programme Acquisition Manager, and was later promoted to Deputy Director of Programme Acquisition, then Director of Programme Acquisition. She is now the Deputy Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel, responsible for buying programmes for all the channels, and in charge of international programme distribution. Owing to her prominent achievement, she was awarded Phoenix TV Outstanding Contribution Awards in 2003.
Angela is an active participant in the international TV markets and awards. She was the jury for a number of awards including the TV Asia Awards, International Emmy and ABU Prize. She worked closely with international organizations like World Economic Forum, The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
Angela went to Sacred Heart Canossian College in Hong Kong before she attended Grade 12 in Ontario, Canada. She got her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication at the Ohio State University (Columbus) in the States. As a part-time student in the late 1990s, she graduated and got the law degree LLB from University of London, UK.